USA -- Marijuana users are an extremely diverse group. Whether it be medical or recreational use, they can be found in almost every demographic imaginable in America. As such, there are a wide variety of opinions on how marijuana should be treated by society at large, as well as how to achieve such goals. This shouldn't be surprising, and there is always room for debate on what the best models and methods for reform should be. Recently, however, a disturbing trend has emerged.
It appears that there is a growing contingent of marijuana users and people associated with the industry, both legal and illicit, who are actively fighting against efforts to make marijuana legal for all adults. There are several arguments being thrown around to defend the status quo of marijuana prohibition. Some of those arguments are well intentioned but shortsighted. Some are downright malicious. The one commonality they have is their divisive effect on the movement at a time when unity is crucial to finally end the government's war on marijuana users.
A common complaint is that, in a regulated marijuana market, big corporations will push out small businesses. This is an understandable fear, especially to someone who has spent his or her life, and risked imprisonment and persecution, trying to run a marijuana-related business. These people surely do not want to see a culture and industry that they love taken over by corporate interests and diluted. But corporations already control marijuana.
They are the cartels that heavily influence the market and bring death to our borders and our inner cities. They are the prison-builders that lobby for harsher sentencing so they can keep the cells full and the cash flowing. They are the pharmaceutical companies that stonewall cannabinoid research so they can keep pushing expensive pills.
The Cartels are now corporations.... YEAH RIGHT... Guess what, the majority of Mexischwagg goes to places other than cali.... Cali has some of if not the best weed in the world... aint nobody buying and smoking that shit... It all goes to the midwest and the south... Its everywhere in those areas... I cant even find schwagg... all chronic... Those cartels will be fighting over the territory whether MJ is legal or illegal... its much more than just MJ,
All of asudden the violence stops because we can have a ounce.... LMAO... It wont stop, they will fight over there remaining profit probably harder than what they do now... So its not crazy to consider that violence will remain the same or even go up... maybe... its all speculation, just like its speculation to say that the violence will go down...
